Heðin Brú

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Heðin Brú on a commemorative stamp from 1988

Heðin Brú [ heːjɪn brʉu ], actually Hans Jacob Jacobsen or Hans Jákup í Stovuni (born August 17, 1901 in Skálavík , Faroe Islands ; † May 18, 1987 in Tórshavn ) was a Faroese writer .

Heðin Brú was the third Faroese novelist after Regin í Líð and Hans A. Djurhuus . It is considered the Faroese classic and is valued for its fresh and ironic style. His novel Feðgar á ferð (German title: Des poor man's honor , in the GDR: Ketil and the whales ; new translation 2015: Father and Son on the move ) is a book of the 20th century in the Faroe Islands.

Together with his colleagues , who were almost the same age, William Heinesen , Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen and Christian Matras , people also speak of the “big four” of their generation in the Faroe Islands.

Live and act

Heðin Brú, like many of his compatriots, went to sea as a fisherman at a young age . After two seasons, he decided to train in agriculture in Denmark . Back in the Faroe Islands, he worked as an agricultural advisor. As such, he came around all over the country and came into contact with the simple village population, which was to have a decisive influence on his literary work.

In 1930 Heðin Brús first novel Lognbrá appeared , which tells of a boy growing up in a Faroese village. In 1935 the second part, Fastatøkur , comes out, where the now young man works as a fisherman on a sloop . Both books were published in 1946 in Danish translation under the title Høgni .

Heðin Brú monument in his native Skálavík

Feðgar á ferð , his best known work, was published in Faroese in 1940 , in Danish ( Fattigmandsære ) in 1962 , in German ( Des poor man's honor , translation of the Danish edition) in 1966 and in English in 1970 in the United States under the title The Old Man and his Sons . It was the first novel to be translated from Faroese into English. He tells of the change in rural society to a modern fishing nation and the resulting generation conflicts.

In 1963, Leikum fagurt was a satire on Faroese politics between the two world wars. Men livið lær (1970) is about a Faroese village around 1800, and Tað stóra takið from 1972 takes us to a Faroese village around 1900. In addition to these novels, Heðin Brú created three collections of novels and two Shakespeare translations ( Hamlet and the Storm ) and a considerable number of other translations of world literature into Faroese until his death . His six-volume Faroese fairy tale collection Ævintýr I - VI (with illustrations by Elinborg Lützen ) was published between 1959 and 1974 . A standard work.

Hans Jacob Jacobsen's son Bárður is one of the most important visual artists of our time in the Faroe Islands.

Works

  • Lognbrá . 1930 (Roman. Various editions)
  • Fastatøkur . 1935 (Roman. Various editions)
    • Berättelsen om Högni ; Translation from Faroese into Swedish by Niels Edberg and Sigfrid Lindström . Lund: Gleerups Förlag, 1939 - 440 pp.
    • Högni. Romanzo delle Faer-Öer ; Translation into Italian by Piero Monaci. Milano: A Mondadori, 1942
    • Högni ; Translation into Spanish by Angel Giménez Ortiz. Barcelona: Hispano Americana de Ediciones, 1946 - 325 pp.
  • Fjallaskuggin . 1936 (novellas, translated and reprinted from 1963)
    • Fjallaskuggin ; Illustrated by Bárður Jákupsson. Tórshavn: Self-published, 1967 - 135 pp. (2nd edition, then others)
      • Fjeldskyggen, noveller and skitser ; Translation into Danish by Gunnvá and Povl Skårup. Copenhagen: Gyldendal , 1963 - 140 pp.
      • Fjällskuggan och andra noveller från Färöarna ; Selection and translation into Swedish by Birgitta Hylin; Cover picture by Bárður Jákupsson. Stockholm: PA Norstedt & Söners förlag, 1981 - 169 pp.
      • from: The White Church in: Sven H. Rossel (Ed.): Christmas in Scandinavia . University of Nebraska Press, 1996 - 182 pp. ISBN 0803239076 (various authors)
  • Grái táttur in: Sosialurin , 1938 (satire)
  • Feðgar á ferð . Tórshavn: Varðin , 1940 - 160 p. (Roman. At least 5 editions)
    • Feðgar á ferð ; Translation into Icelandic by Aðalsteinn Sigmundsson. Reykjavík: Víkingsútgáfan, 1941 - 208 pp.
    • Fattigmandsære ; Translation into Danish by Gunnvá and Povl Skårup; Foreword by William Heinesen . Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1962 - 146 pp.
    • Fattigfolk på ferde ; Translation into Norwegian by Ivar Eskeland; Foreword by William Heinesen. Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget, 1964 - 152 pp.
    • Poor man's honor ; translated from Danish by Alfred Anderau. With illustrations by Camille Corti and an afterword by William Heinesen (pp. 221–223). Zurich: Flamberg, 1966 - 223 pp.
    • nîsarnarsuíngôĸ / nugterissoĸ ; Translation from Danish into Greenlandic by Jørgen Fleischer . Godthåb: Det Grønlandske Forlag, 1967 - 128 pp.
    • The old man and his sons ; Translation into English and preface by John F. West ; Drawings by Bárður Jákupsson . New York: Paul S. Eriksson, 1970-203 pp. ISBN 0839784120
    • Honor biedaka ; Translation into Polish by Henryk Anders and Maria Krysztofiak. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie, 1970 - 154 pp.
    • Ketil and the Whales ; Translation from Danish by Ernst Walter with reference to the Faroese original. With a comment by the translator (pp. 187–192). Rostock: Hinstorff, 1971 - 192 pp.
    • Fattigmans heder ; Translation into Swedish by Birgitta Hylin; Cover photo by William Heinesen. Stockholm: Bokförlaget Pan / Norstedts, 1977 - 137 pp.
    • Father and son on the move ; Transfer from Faroese by Richard Kölbl . With an afterword by Klaus Böldl ; (Pp. 191-202). Berlin: Guggolz, 2015 - 205 pp.
  • Flókatrøll . Copenhagen: Bókadeild Føroyingafelags, 1948 - 128 pp. (Novellas. Translations together with Fjallaskuggin 1936. see above)
  • Ævintýr ; Illustrations by Elinborg Lützen . Tórshavn: Føroya lærarafelag, 1959–1974 - 6 volumes (Faroese fairy tale collection. The 2nd edition has been published since 1974)
  • Føroyingasøga . Translation from Old Norse into Faroese by Heðin Brú and Rikard Long . Tórshavn: Skúlabókagrunnurin, 1962 - 105 pp.
  • Leikum fagurt ...; Cover design by Bárður Jákupsson. Tórshavn: self-published, 1963 - 195 pp. (Various editions)
  • Purkhús . Self-published, 1966 (short stories)
    • From this: "Purkhús" and "Alone on Lítla Dímun (Einsamallur í Lítlu Dímun)" In: "I know about islands ..." Stories from the Faroe Islands . Edited by Verena Stössinger and Anna Katharina Dömling, Unionsverlag 2006 ISBN 3-293-00366-4
  • Men lívið lær . Tórshavn: Varðin, 1970 - 321 pages (novel, various editions, most recently as a school book 2001, ISBN 99918-0-267-3 )
  • Buravnurin ; Cover photo by Bárður Jákupsson. Tórshavn: Emil Thomsen, 1971 - 128 pp.
  • Tað stóra takið ; Cover photo by Bárður Jákupsson. 1st edition, Tórshavn: Bókagarður, Emil Thomsen, 1972 - 251 pp.
  • Endurminningar ; Cover design by William Heinesen. Tórshavn: Bókagarður, Emil Thomsen, 1980 - 389 p. (Memoirs. 2001 as audio book, 15 music cassettes)

Translations

Heðin Brú has translated the following works of world literature into the Faroese language :

  • Anton Pavlovich Chekhov : Másin . (Russian Чайка . Without publisher and year. Available in the National Library of the Faroe Islands , 59 sheets. The piece was performed in the Faroe Islands, but has not yet been published as a book)
  • " William Shakespeare : Harðveðrið ". In: Varðin 39 , (Tórshavn) 1964 ( The Tempest )
  • William Shakespeare: Hamlet, prinsur av Danmørk . Tórshavn: Varðin, 1969 - 244 p. (English Hamlet, Prince of Denmark )
  • Henrik Ibsen : Hedda Gabler . Sjónleikur í fýra pørtum . Tórshavn: Havnar sjónleikarfelag, 1969 - 108 pp.
  • Knut Hamsun : Vælferðin ; Drawings by Bárður Jákupsson . Tórshavn: Bókagarður, Emil Thomsen, 1972 - 326 pp.
  • William Heinesen : Móðir Sjeystjørna ; Cover picture by William Heinesen. Tórshavn: Emil Thomsen, 1975 - 135 pp.
  • William Heinesen: Glataðu spælimenninir ; Cover picture by William Heinesen. Tórshavn: Emil Thomsen, 1975 - 298 pp.
  • Fyodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski : Tey á Steffansleiti . Tórshavn: Emil Thomsen, 1977 - 238 p. (The Stepantschikowo estate and its inhabitants)
  • Fyodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski: Karamasov-brøðurnir ; Cover photo by William Heinesen. Tórshavn: Bókagarður, Emil Thomsen, 1978 - 3 volumes, IX + 452, 382, ​​458 p. (Russian Братья Карамазовы - The Karamazov brothers)
  • Münchhausen greivi - sigur frá ; Drawings by Zacharias Heinesen . Tórshavn: Føroya lærarafelag, 1978 - 175 pp.
  • Astrid Lindgren : Brøðurnir Leyvuhjarta. Tórshavn: Varðin, 1980 - 242 p. (Swedish Bröderna Lejonhjärta - The Lionheart Brothers)
  • Brothers Grimm : Tann stóra ævintýrbókin . Tórshavn: Føroya lærarafelag, 1981 - 125 pages ("The Great Book of Fairy Tales")
  • Emily Brontë : Harðförar hæddir ; Cover picture by William Heinesen. Tórshavn: Bókagarður, Emil Thomsen, 1984 - 376 p. ( Wuthering Heights )
  • Astrid Lindgren: Søgur ; Translations into Faroese by Heðin Brú et al. Velbastað: Dropin, 1986 - 263 p. ("Stories")
  • Brothers Grimm: Ævintýrbókin ; Translations into Faroese by Heðin Brú et al. Tórshavn: Føroya lærarafelag, 1989 - 251 pages ("The Book of Fairy Tales")

Awards

literature

  • Hedin Brønner: Three Faroese Novelists: An Appreciation of Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen , William Heinesen and Hedin Bru . New York: Twayne, 1973 (140 pages)
  • Finnbogi Arge: "Feðgar á ferð. A lysing av einum samfelagi í broyting". In: Varðin , XLV, (Tórshavn) 1978, pp. 104-21.
  • W. Glyn Jones: "Types of Determinism in the Work of Heðin Brú and Martin Joensen". In: Scandinavistik , XIV, (Kiel) 1984, pp. 21–35.
  • Jógvan Isaksen: "'Det er umuligt at skrive i et lille samfund'. Heðin Brú 100 år / It is impossible to write in a small community. Heðin Brú's 100th anniversary". In: Nordisk Litteratur / Nordic Literature , 2003, pp. 50–53.
  • "Eitt hundrað ára minni um Heðin Brú". In: Varðin , 68, (Tórshavn) 2001.
  • William Heinesen: Jacobsen, Hans Jacob . In: Dansk Biografisk Leksikon , bind 7, Kbh. 1981, p. 175.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In Faroese on the Internet
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  3. ^ Google Books
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  5. ^ Danske Litteraturpriser
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personal data
SURNAME Brú, Heðin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hans Jacob Jacobsen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Faroese writer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Skálavík , Faroe Islands
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1987
Place of death Tórshavn